tamasha
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Marathi तमाशा (tamāśā).
Noun
tamasha (countable and uncountable, plural tamashas)
- A visual art form from Maharashtra, India, involving singing and dancing.
- c.1885, A.L.O.E. The Wondrous Sickle
- We had fine clothes, and feasting, and drum-beating, and fireworks let off in our village. It was a grand tamasha!
- c.1885, A.L.O.E. The Wondrous Sickle
- (colonial India, derogatory) Any traditional indigenous public ceremony.
- 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 60:
- This superficial description is all the information the text has on the subject of the Muharram, and it is clear that to the author such activity was to be regarded as a tamasha, an outlandish ceremony of value to the foreign visitor only as a spectacle.
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Anagrams
- Samatha, shamata
Swahili
Noun
tamasha (n class, plural tamasha)
- festival (celebration)